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More outrages and insanities in Paris

President Obama and his UN colleagues are on a mission to ensure that the U.S. commits itself to drastic reductions in carbon dioxide emissions, thereby drastic reductions in the per capita income of Americans, and drastic reductions in human freedom - all for little or no environmental benefit. To accompllsh this, the alarmists tell us they are supposed to be far worse than the all-too-real butchery we have witnessed in San Bernardino, Boston, Fort Hood, Israel, Bali, Mali, Madrid, Mumbai, London, Lebanon, Libya, Iraq, Syria, Kenya, Nigeria – and Paris! With more to come.

By Paul Driessen |2015-12-11T12:20:58-05:00December 11th, 2015|7 Comments

A new strategy for tax cheats

The EPA and other Obama Administration agencdies pay out millions to those who review their work and then refuse to let even Congress see the results of the alleged research. Michael Mann got away with hiding the results of his own research from state government officials. All this and more to falsely convict carbon dioxide of causing climate calamity and then virtually ban the use of fossil fuels. This sham must stop.

By Paul Driessen |2015-12-11T01:38:17-05:00December 11th, 2015|Comments Off

Measuring the climate models and hype

Global temperatures have remained steady for almost 19 years, the United States has not been hit by a Category 3, 4 or 5 hurricane since 2005, total polar ice is increasing, not melting, and seas are rising at barely seven inches per century.

By Craig Rucker |2015-12-09T11:44:28-05:00December 9th, 2015|Comments Off

Hope for our water woes found in fracking technologies

CFACT energy advisor Marita Noon outlines research being done in Texas on recycling produced water for reuse in hydraulic fracturing operations -- a move that, if as successful in field trials as in initial tests, will provde to be highly beneficial on multiple fronts -- including the Oklahoma earthquake front.

By Marita Noon |2015-11-30T14:55:12-05:00November 30th, 2015|1 Comment

Climate change, not ISIS, is the “greatest threat” for Obama

Paris is currently hosting a UN conference aimed at waging war on climate change little more than two weeks after suffering the largest terrorist attack experienced in France since 1944. Declared by President Obama, Secretary of State John Kerry, and other major administration players as the “greatest global threat,” we can only wonder how many civilized world citizens recognize the colossal dimensions of this frightful delusion. Adding symbolic irony to this tragedy, Al Gore was forced to suspend his 24-hour climate alarm webcast in front of the subsequently darkened Eiffel tower just hours after those deadly attacks occurred. Intended to promote [...]

By Larry Bell |2015-11-30T14:28:37-05:00November 30th, 2015|Comments Off

‘Martin Act’ targets ExxonMobil for phony climate alarm

The New York Attorney General is using an obscure 1921 law -- originally aimed at stock-sale fraud -- to attack ExxonMobil with threats of prison time for its principals. Some Democratic Congress members have demanded a Securities and Exchange Commission and Justice Department investigation of ExxonMobil in much the same way they went after the tobacco industry in the 1990s, and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D, RI) wants a RICO investigation of the company. The only problem: the "Crime" they want ExxonMobil prosecuted for never happened except in the twisted minds of the would-be judges and juries.

By Larry Bell |2015-11-23T14:59:36-05:00November 23rd, 2015|Comments Off

Greens “smuggle” climate policy into the church to tip climate politics

The old adage -- follow the money -- proves right once again. The Evangical Environmental Network, created to "green" evangelical parishoners into voting for radical environmental policies, was paid for this job via grants from the Hewlett and Energy Foundations, among others. This brazen attempt to politicize the churches was thwarted by a counter measure group, the Cornwall Alliance. Yet the greens remain hopeful they will succeed the next time around.

By Marita Noon |2015-11-23T14:17:23-05:00November 23rd, 2015|12 Comments

Judicial activism endangering our citrus industry

CFACT Senior Policy Advisor Paul Driessen explains how judicial activism and fear-mongering by anti-pesticide activists has left the citrus industry in Florida and California without a key tool -- sulfoxaflor -- to fight a massive invasion of the flying aphid-like Asian citrus psyllid, which has already cut the Florida citrus yield by 60%. This time, even the EPA is on the side of the growers -- and they are working with the Court to reverse the ban. But so should we.

By Paul Driessen |2015-11-22T09:57:02-05:00November 22nd, 2015|Comments Off

Ethanol loses its few friends

There is a growing, bipartisan consensus (outside certain corn-dominant states) that it is time to end the ethanol mandate -- and definitely not to expand that mandate to include E15 fuel, which has a track record of fouling engines and engine components. Ethanol is especially hard on marine engines -- and E15 would be much worse. Meanwhile, the ethanol mandate has contributed to rising prices for food and certain consumer goods.

By Marita Noon |2015-11-17T21:24:28-05:00November 17th, 2015|2 Comments

Data tweaking heats up climate hype

Executive Department agencies within the Obama Administration have tweaked historic real-world data 16 times in the past 3 years alone to try to hide the fact that there has been no global warming for nearly two decades and to falsely claim that the current temperatures are the highest on record. And why not? Billions of taxpayer dollars are funneled to those whose reports line up with the political agendas of the White House and others with a vested interest in "climate change." In reality, these shenanigans should be rewarded with a loss of jobs and credibility.

By Larry Bell |2015-11-17T20:43:40-05:00November 17th, 2015|12 Comments

UN Launches “2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”

The UN has been peddling sustainable development since its landmark conference in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. Don’t buy any of it. It’s a scam that, by denying the world’s poorest people access to affordable energy and other natural resources as well as the tools of modern agriculture, will perpetuate global poverty and empower unelected bureaucrats and their cronies.

By Bonner Cohen, Ph. D. |2015-11-12T15:20:07-05:00November 12th, 2015|34 Comments

Thank a cow for cooling the planet

Although you may not wish to share a crowded elevator with a flatulent bovine friend, at least express a little gratitude that he/she is helping to protect the planet from dreaded global warming. A significant but media-ignored 2013 report published in the journal Nature concluded that livestock greenhouse gas “excretions” may tend to cool, not heat up, temperatures. Titled “Molecular understanding of sulphuric acid-amine particle nucleation in the atmosphere," the report concludes that the ammonia-laden content contributes in creating cloud cover which reflects daytime solar infrared energy back to space. Although the clouds also hold heat near the surface at night, [...]

By Larry Bell |2015-11-11T13:05:51-05:00November 11th, 2015|6 Comments

On climate change, Catholic leaders must believe in miracles

While Catholic leaders, led by Pope Francis, are focused on curbing global warming (aka curbing the use of fossil fuels) as the most urgent means of combating poverty, the facts are that cheap, reliable energy and access to jobs and markets is what the poor need most. And, not surprisingly, the poor know it -- ranking "climate change" the LEAST important concern in their lives, with food and education at the top.

By Marita Noon |2015-11-11T12:42:51-05:00November 11th, 2015|Comments Off

EPA fights for control of farm ponds

In a victory for landowners, a Cincinnati federal court blocke implementation of the EPA's controversial Waters of the United States rules. But the lawless federal agency says it intends to enforce the rule anyway despite the court injunction.

By Larry Bell |2015-11-11T12:11:16-05:00November 11th, 2015|1 Comment

We need protection from the EPA

The EPA is becoming notorious for faking its cost-benefit numbers to justify onerous, and environmentally useless, regulations that will impose billions of dollars in compliance costs, cost many jobs, and seriously weaken the U.S. economy -- that is, unless the federal courts shoot them down for failing to follow the law. From the Clean Power Plan's assault on life-giving carbon dioxide to particulate matter and methane and more, the EPA is shameless in using buddy-reviewed (rather than truly peer-reviewed) research (often hidden from even the oversight of Congress to avoid any scrutiny) and even anecdotal material to justify regulations with enormous economic consequences. This, says CFACT advisor Larry Bell, must stop.

By Larry Bell |2015-10-26T18:06:28-04:00October 26th, 2015|6 Comments